Rocket Summer 2024: I, Robot!
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Published 2024-07-18
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All Comments (14)
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I read I Robot when I was 16, you are making me feel it deserves a reread several decades on.
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I’m doing an I, Robot read a long in a few days with my daughter and her boyfriend who is Japanese and who is reading it in Japanese. We talked about this last night! This is crazy that you are talking about this today. I think after the books we’ve been reading it is the natural next one!
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Great selection. I have that 75 cent Fawcett paperback of I, Robot. It’s high time I reread it, since the only story I clearly remember is “Liar!” I also have the two volume large Avon paperback set of Isaac Asimov’s autobiography In Memory Yet Green / In Joy Still Felt. I bought them decades ago in Toronto when they were new. For me, they are bookshelf essentials.
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Thank you, Steve! It's been a long time since I read I, Robot but I am sure I enjoyed it as much as I've enjoyed Asimov's other stories. I'm also in complete agreement with you about the movie. I loved the movie, but it really didn't have anything to do with the book. My only comment at the end was "why did they call it I, Robot?"
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I also liked the movie--it was FUN! It should be appreciated on its own terms.
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Hi Steve. Great video. This is sort of interesting: yesterday, you talked about Philip K. Dick, and I had just finished reading a short story by him. Today, you’re talking about Asimov, and I just finished reading an Asimov short story earlier this afternoon. Hmmm, what’s up next? 🤔🚀
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My first intro to Asimov was this and Caves of Steel. Still got a few to go though ! Great stuff.😊
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I liked I,Robot and your commentary
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Hello Steve
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Locking Michael Vaughan in your basement and forcing him to make your thumbnails seems both cruel and appropriate.
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The Will Smith film was a repurposing of a screenplay that made unwitting use of the Three Laws of Robotics. When they realized those were under copyright, they got the rights to the book and retitled their film “I, Robot”. Harlan Ellison wrote a screenplay for a potential adaptation. It was never produced. Ellison later published it. Asimov thought it would have made the best SF film of all time.
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Thanks Steve..really enjoyed this...a great distraction and homily to a Golden Age.....
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Think the Will Smith movie is quite good and has aged better than most would think.
